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Peer reviewedHall, Roberta L. – Anthropological Linguistics, 1973
Revised version of a paper presented at the Northwest Anthropological Conference, Corvallis, Oregon, March 1970. (DD)
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Immigrants, Language Patterns, Mutual Intelligibility
Peer reviewedSt. Clair, Robert – Language Sciences, 1973
The claim that dialects of a language do not always share the same underlying forms is known as the independency principle. (DD)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Dialects, Grammar, Language Patterns
Download full textCheng, Chin-Chuan – 1993
Measurement of the mutual intelligibility of dialects of a language is discussed. The focus is on several theoretical constructs in measurement, illustrated with data from an earlier study of the mutual intelligibility of 17 Chinese dialects. Measurement procedures are also explained. It is proposed that mutual intelligibility is based on the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classification, Dialects, Language Patterns
Hendrick, Ann – 1971
A course to make students aware of the patterns of the different dialects of American English is offered by the Dade County Public Schools. Designed to foster tolerance for other ways of speaking, the quinmester program helps students to determine their own dialect and to compare it with alternative forms of speech. The course content includes a…
Descriptors: Dialects, Language Patterns, Language Usage, Listening Skills
Peer reviewedScholes, R. J. – Language and Speech, 1971
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Cues
Peer reviewedWest, Candace; Zimmerman, Don H. – Social Problems, 1977
This study found that there are striking similarities between the pattern of interruptions in male-female interchanges and those observed in the adult-child transactions. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Language Patterns, Models, Mothers
STIMSON, HUGH – 1966
MUTUAL INTELLIGIBILITY, WHICH SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN THE INITIAL BASIS FOR CHINESE DIALECT CLASSIFICATION, ALONG WITH GEOGRAPHIC PROXIMITY HAS PROVIDED A FAIRLY REALISTIC GROUPING OF THE MANDARIN DIALECTS. IT NOW SEEMS DESIRABLE TO WORK OUT A FORMAL DEFINITION IN PRECISE LINGUISTIC TERMS OF WHAT CONSTITUTES A MANDARIN DIALECT AND TO DISCOVER WHETHER…
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Bickford, J. Albert – 1989
A study of dialectal variation in Mexican Sign Language (MSL), the primary language for a large segment of Mexico's deaf community, is presented. Signs used by nine different sources representing various locations, ages, and social groups are compared. The first section reviews a number of previous informal assessments of dialectal variation in…
Descriptors: Deafness, Dialect Studies, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedHeider, Eleanor Rosch – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Cues, Elementary School Students, Interpersonal Relationship
CASSIDY, FREDERIC G. – 1963
THE DEFINITION OF THE WORD "LANGUAGE" CAN BE LIMITED TO MEAN "A VOCAL AND AUDITORY MEANS OF COMMUNICATION, WHICH WORKS BY THE SYMBOLIC PROCESS, WHICH HAS A COMPLEX STRUCTURE, AND WHICH IS CONSTANTLY CHANGING SO LONG AS IT REMAINS IN USE." THERE ARE SIX IMPLICATIONS OF THIS DEFINITION--(1) ALTHOUGH LANGUAGE IS PRIMARILY AUDITORY AND VOCAL, IT CAN…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Dialects, English Instruction, Expressive Language
Gee, James Paul, Ed.; And Others – 1973
This volume includes 12 of the 24 papers presented at the Third Annual California Linguistics Conference. Selections are drawn from each of the four sessions, covering semantic and lexical structure, phonology, syntax, and language in context. Each of the papers includes a bibliography, as well as diagrams, charts, and appendixes when necessary.…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Distinctive Features (Language), Dutch, German
Coppola, Carlo – 1972
Despite similarities between Hindi and Urdu and mutual intelligibility, at least on the spoken level, slight grammatical differences between the two languages do exist. The treatment of gender provides an example of such differences. Explanation of the actual differences in gender usage can be based on a synchronic, linguistic level as well as on…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Culture, Descriptive Linguistics
Veith, Donald P. – California English Journal, 1968
For the beginning or general student, dialectology and the history of the English language can both be taught with a common frame of reference provided by certain principles of linguistic change. Related in obvious ways with the history of language but often overlooked in dialectology, these principles are (1) that any living language is certain…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Cultural Isolation, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Wigdorsky-Vogelsang, Leopoldo – 1978
This work is intended to find replies to practical questions, such as how well native speakers of Spanish are decoded by native speakers of English, which errors interfere with decoding by the listener, and what the implications of the study might be for teaching. Fifteen Chileans were asked to tell stories in English, and several panels of native…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Comprehension, English, English (Second Language)
